Eighty-seven-year-old Clarence Dotson wears his uniform as proudly today as he when he was an 18-year-old Army draftee in 1943.

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Eighty-seven year old Clarence Dotson remembers the years 1943-1946 as if they were yesterday. He was fighting for his country in World War II in the European theater. He was an 18-year-old young man graduating from high school when he was drafted into the U.S. Army, eager to engage the enemy.

"I didn't have any choice about it," he said. "They said go and fight and I did."

Dotson grew up outside of Asheville. After being drafted, he trained for five months to fight in some of the most devastating battles in World War II, and survive to tell his story so the "great war" will not be forgotten and become ...